#rwby wlw survey

[breadthief]

So, WOW.

I did not expect to get over 1,100 responses to my “hehe what do my fellow wuhluhwuhs think of rwby” survey, but here we are! I’m honored and the statistics nerd in me is absolutely giddy, so here’s responses with 10x the scope of our last writeup, 150+ responses! And remember that we’re still plugging so if you haven’t yet take the survey here!

Demographic

As of 1,100+ votes:

44.7% of survey takers identify as Lesbian 37.8% as Bisexual 11.8% as Pansexual 16.1% as Asexual 3.4% as Aromantic

When it comes to umbrella terms, 13.1% use the umbrella term sapphic, 23.2% use WLW, and 22.1% use Queer

(Note that this is a “select all that apply” question, so one may, for example, hit “bisexual, aromantic, and wlw”; percentages do not necessarily take away from each other.)

As of 1,100+ votes,

81.3% respondents identify simply as a Woman 19.8% identify as Non-binary

When it comes to non-binary identities, 5.9% identify as genderfluid, 3.9% identify as a demigirl, and 3.3% identify as genderqueer.

Out of the people that consider themselves binary women,

79.5% responded that they are Cisgender 9% responded that they are Transgender 11.6% do not wish to disclose whether they are cis or trans

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Characters (Opinions)

So, which characters are popular in the RWBY wlw community? Which characters aren’t?

Here’s where results start differing from our last writeup! Just like fandometics +n and -n will indicate how many spots someone moved. Bold will be used if anyone new enters a list.

(Note: Respondents were allowed to choose up to 5 favorites)

As of 1,100+ votes...

Top 10 most popular female characters

1. Yang Xiao Long (61.7%) 2. Blake Belladonna (48%) 3. Weiss Schnee (44.1%) 4. Ruby Rose (25.5%) 5. Pyrrha Nikos (17.5%) 6. Nora Valkyrie (13.2%) 7. Penny Polendina (12.8%) +1 8. Neo (11.3%) +1 9. Winter Schnee (8.7%) 10. Ilia Amitola (7.8) -4

Top 10 most popular male characters

1. Qrow Branwen (58.4%) 2. Lie Ren (39.2%) 3. Sun Wukong (29.5) +2 4. Jaune Arc (26.3%) 5. Oscar Pine (25.9%) -2 6. Ghira Belladonna (12.4%) 7. Roman Torchwick (11.5%) 8. Marrow Amin (11.3%) +2 9. Clover Ebi (11.2%) 10. James Ironwood (10.4%) -1

We also polled which characters wlw hate!

Top 5 most hated female characters

1. Cinder Fall (50.2%) 2. Salem (27.1%) 3. Raven Branwen (20.9) +1 4. Glynda Goodwitch (17%) -1 5. Neon Katt (16.1%) -1

Top 5 most hated male characters 1. Adam Taurus (71.3%) 2. Jacques Schnee (66.4%) 3. Tyrian Callows (23.6%) 4. Leonardo Lionheart (17%)  5. Arthur Watts & Jaune Arc (12.9% each) -1 but only for Jaune

We also asked which characters wlw personally relate to or project onto the most.

Top 10 most relatable female characters to wlw

1. Blake Belladonna (47.3%) +1 2. Yang Xiao Long (45.5%) -1 3. Ruby Rose (33.9%) 4. Weiss Schnee (30.4%) 5. Ilia Amitola (14.1%) 6. Pyrrha Nikos (10.3%) +1 7. Penny Polendina (10%) +1 8. Nora Valkyrie (9.6%) -2 9. Winter Schnee (7.3%) 10. Velvet Scarlatina (4.9%) -2

Top 5 most relatable male characters to wlw (Note: there was a large vote disparsity between the two!)

1. Jaune Arc (36.8%) 2. Qrow Branwen (34.6%) 3. Lie Ren (29%) +1 4. Oscar Pine (26.9%) -1 5. Sun Wukong (17.7%)

Characters (Headcanons)

Next, we asked for peoples’ sexuality headcanons. We asked people to select every character they thought of strictly as X sexuality.

I did include characters whose sexuality has been confirmed, like Ilia, mostly because I copy-pasted the character lists and I made this at midnight. Whoops - but it is fun to see her topping the “most lesbian” list.

These will be phrased as “most [sexuality] character”, because it’s fun.

Top 10 most lesbian characters, as voted by wlw

1. Ilia Amitola (87.3%) 2. Coco Adel (80.8%) 3. Robyn Hill (72.1%) +1 4. Yang Xiao Long (66.1%) -1 5. Fiona Thyme (50.5%) 6. Weiss Schnee (38.7%) 7. Velvet Scarlatina (35.2%) +1 8. Winter Schnee (34%) -1 9. Emerald Sustrai (29%) 10. May Marigold (25.7%)

Top 10 most bisexual female characters

1. Blake Belladonna (92.9%) 2. Raven Branwen (51.4%) 3. Summer Rose (41.5%) 4. Pyrrha Nikos (35%) 5. Weiss Schnee (31.4%) +2 6. Velvet Scarlatina (32.7%) -1 7. Nora Valkyrie (25.6%) -1  8. Emerald Sustrai (20.8%) +1 9. Ruby Rose (19.4%) 10. Winter Schnee and Kali Belladonna (19.3%) -2 but only for Kali

Top 10 most pansexual female characters

1. Nora Valkyrie (36.7%) 2. Neon Katt (32.3%) 3. Yang Xiao Long (25.5%) +1 4. Pyrrha Nikos (23.7%) -1 5. Penny Polendina (24.5%) +1 6. Ruby Rose (20%) -1 7. Neo (16.3%) 8. Summer Rose (16.1%) 9. May Marigold (10.8%) 10. Velvet Scarlatina (9.9%)

Top 10 most ace and/or aro female characters

1. Ruby Rose (70.2%) 2. Penny Polendina (47.3%) 3. Neo (23.2%) 4. Glynda Goodwitch (11.8%) +1 5. Maria Calavera (10.8%) -1 6. Cinder Fall (9.3%)  7. Winter Schnee (8.5%) +3 8. Sienna Khan (5.8%) -1  9. Weiss Schnee (4.3%) -1 10. Salem (4.7%)

Ships

As of 1,100+ responses:

What is your favorite ship? (You can only pick one!)

Bumbleby (Blake/Yang) - 57% Whiterose (Weiss/Ruby) - 13.8% Fair Game (Qrow/Clover) - 5.6% Nuts and Dolts (Ruby/Penny) -3.9% Freezerburn (Yang/Weiss) - 2.6% Renora (Ren/Nora) - 1.9% Ladybug (Ruby/Blake) - 1.6% Monochrome (Weiss/Blake) - 1.4% Rosegarden (Ruby/Oscar) - 1.1% Arkos (Jaune/Pyrrha) - 1%

I don’t have space to write all the ones that got less than 1%, so they won’t be in this report.

Top 10 wlw ships, as rated by wlw:

(This is another category where up to 5 answers are permissible!)

1. Bumbleby (89.6%) 2. Whiterose (60.8%) 3. Crosshares [Coco/Velvet] (58%) +1 4. Nuts and Dolts (57.2%) -1 5. Springthyme [Robyn/Fiona] (35.8%) 6. Freezerburn [Yang/Weiss] (29.8%) +1 7. Rosebird [Raven/Summer] (23.9%) +1 8. Schneewood Forest [Robyn/Winter] (18.2%) +1   9. Schneekos [Weiss/Pyrrha] (16.4%) -3 10. Arcotta [Sapphron/Terra] (16.1%)

Top 5 mlm ships

1. Fair Game [Qrow/Clover] (85.4%) 2. Seamonkeys [Sun/Neptune] (64.9%) 3. Ironqrow [Ironwood/Qrow] (40.5%) 4. Martial Arcs [Jaune/Ren] (15.2%) 5. Rich Farmers [Oscar/Whitley] (14.4%)

Top 5 m/f ships

1. Renora (87.5%) 2. Arkos (66.8%) 3. Rosegarden [Ruby/Oscar] (11.8%) +2 4. Emercury [Emerald/Mercury] (10.4%) 5. Gelato [Neo/Torchwick] (9.8%) -1

Next, we polled on likelihood vs. personal want. In this next section, up to 5 choices were permissible.

Top 10 “most likely to be canon” ships, as voted by wlw

1. Bumbleby (97.9%) 2. Renora (91%) 3. Fair Game (54.3%) 4. Rosegarden (32.8%) +2   5. Crosshares (29.5%) -1 6. Springthyme (29%) -1 7. Whiterose (18.3%) 8. Dreadnought [Salem/Ozpin], reconciled (15.6%) 9. Nuts and Dolts (13.3%) 10. Phoenix [Taiyang/Raven], reconciled (9%)

Top 10 “most wanted to be canon” ships

1. Bumbleby (88.3%) 2. Renora (70.8%) 3. Fair Game (59.6%) 4. Whiterose (42.6%) +1   5. Crosshares (31.7%) -1 6. Springthyme (34.9%) 7. Nuts and Dolts (31.2%) 8. Seamonkeys (13.7%) 9. Rosegarden (8.9%)  10. Phoenix, reconciled (7%)

And finally, beware of ship hate - the top 5 most hated ships by wlw

1. Taura/donna (83.4%) 2. Black/sun (33.1%) 3. Iceberg [Weiss/Neptune] (28.5%) +1 4. Rosegarden (28%) -1 5. White Knight [Weiss/Jaune] (27.2%)

Representation

88.3% of wlw polled think RWBY has good wlw representation in general

49.6% would praise RWBY’s lesbian representation

53.7% would praise their bisexual representation

40.8% would praise their trans representation

34.5% would praise their general mlm representation

21.4% would praise their representation of gay men specifically

21.7% would praise their ace/aro representation

Comments on what they could improve on generally include mlm representation, ace/aro rep, and more trans rep

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Thank you so much for partaking in this survey! I’ll post updated results when we hit another milestone... let’s see how far we can go!

[19-bellwether]

I wonder what RWBY's demographics breakdown would be nowadays. The first three volumes' audience was undoubtedly dominated by straight dudes because 'cute waifu show' and that's what Rooster Teeth's following was at the time. Unfortunately, much of that crowd intersected with reactionaries so many of them fell off RWBY and RT when the show's themes and company's policies started rebuking them.

Nowadays, the majority of the fandom is probably still straight men because that's just the kind of audience a Rooster Teeth show and an anime attracts. The RWBY subreddit once did a survey and about 90% of the users fell into this category, though that's also Reddit's average demographic causing bias.

It seems like RWBY is also really popular in queer circles. Every group I've been in had at least one fan, particularly with wlws and trans people. That's what the Tumblr side of the fandom is largely made of. I have no idea how much the show appeals to cishet women though.

As for racial demographics, my best guess is that the two biggest blocks would be white and Asian.

[uwu-ares-uwu]

Me: wow let me check the rwby mlm survey since the wlw survey was super neat-

Rwby mlm survey:

Me:

Blake being the second most disliked female character (she's literally almost as disliked as Adam! Her own fucking abuser!)  is so fucking nasty! She’s more hated than Raven! A neglectful mom who abandoned her kid and is abhorrently selfish and a coward! Blake is more hated than Salem. A narcissistic, selfish, mass murder. The LITERAL ANTAGONIST OF THE SERIES??? I stg I-

[owletarc]

we’ve hit over 50 responses on the bisexual fndm survey so here’s the first round of results. further data like thoughts on representation will be added into the final post, however a majority of participants thought the overall rep in rwby was good but the bisexual rep in rwby was bad. common themes in ways to fix this was to bring in more explicit bi rep (especially mlm and bisexuals in m / f relationships), stop bisexual erasure in characters like blake, weiss and yang, and etc etc.this will be updated again when we reach 150 - 200 responses, thank you for participating and reading this so far !

participants.

50 over all.

32 women.

14 men.

4 nonbinary.

2 prefer not to say.

top 5 favourite female characters.

weiss schnee, 21 votes.

blake belladonna, 18 votes.

yang xiao long, 15 votes.

pyrrha nikos, 12 votes.

ruby rose, 12 votes.

top 5 least favourite female characters.

cinder fall, 34 votes.

blake belladonna, 14 votes.

raven branwen, 10 votes.

yang xiao long, 9 votes.

ruby rose, 7 votes.

top 5 bisexual female headcanons.

blake belladonna, 45 votes.

yang xiao long, 38 votes.

weiss schnee, 22 votes.

neon katt, 20 votes.

robyn hill, 20 votes.

top 5 favourite male characters.

sun wukong, 22 votes.

jaune arc, 15 votes.

qrow branwen, 13 votes.

lie ren, 13 votes.

oscar pine, 11 votes.

top 5 least favourite male characters.

jacques schnee, 33 votes.

adam taurus, 20 votes.

jaune arc, 9 votes.

roman torchwick, 8 votes.

arthur watts, 7 votes.

top 5 bisexual male headcanons.

qrow branwen, 46 votes.

taiyang xiao long, 22 votes.

james ironwood, 20 votes.

mercury black, 18 votes.

roman torchwick, 18 votes.

top 3 favourite rwby ships.

bumbleby (yang / blake), 19 votes.

freezerburn (yang / weiss), 14 votes.

monochrome (weiss / blake), 9 votes.

top 3 least favourite rwby ships.

bumbleby (yang / blake), 27 votes.

whiterose (ruby / weiss), 13 votes.

newspaper (ruby / weiss / blake), 6 votes.

top 5 favourite wlw ships.

nuts & dolts (ruby / penny), 28 votes.

arcotta (saphron / terra), 18 votes.

crosshares (coco / velvet), 18 votes.

baked alaska (yang / neopolitan), 14 votes.

prismatic ponytails (weiss / ilia), 14 votes.

top 5 least favourite wlw ships.

emberald (emerald / cinder), 37 votes.

hellbirds (cinder / raven), 26 votes.

spicecream (cinder / neopolitan), 21 votes.

baked alaska (yang / neopolitan), 18 votes.

rosebird (raven / summer), 15 votes.

top 5 favourite mlm ships.

ironqrow (ironwood / qrow), 34 votes.

seamonkeys (sun / neptune), 33 votes.

martial arcs (jaune / ren), 29 votes.

fair game (qrow / clover), 25 votes.

fireball (qrow / taiyang), 24 votes.

top 5 least favourite mlm ships.

cloqwork (qrow / ozpin), 27 votes.

rich farmers (oscar / whitley), 17 votes.

banana pepper (sun / scarlet), 13 votes.

fair game (qrow / clover), 13 votes.

fireball (qrow / taiyang), 13 votes.

top 5 favourite mlw ships.

emercury (emerald / mercury), 26 votes.

renora (ren / nora), 22 votes.

lancaster (jaune / ruby), 21 votes.

blacksun (blake / sun), 19 votes.

qrowin (qrow / winter), 17 votes.

top 5 least favourite mlw ships.

frostbite (adam / weiss), 24 votes.

iceberg (neptune / weiss), 18 votes.

white knight (jaune / weiss), 18 votes.

dragonslayer (jaune / yang), 16 votes.

quicksilver (mercury / ruby), 15 votes.

[astraguardian]

just came across the old rwby mlm and wlw survey's that happened at the start of January "34.5% would praise their general mlm representation" ... would love to see the difference in those surveys happening now

Yeah... I get the feeling quite a few people would have a different opinion now.

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[breadthief]

flash analysis: 150+ votes

As of right now my rwby wlw survey has 150 responses. thank you!

i plan to update regularly as we hit milestones, with 100 being the first. details below the cut! if you’re wlw and you like rwby, feel free to take the survey, here!

Demographic

As of 150 votes:

56.8% of survey takers identify as Lesbian 27.1% as Bisexual 8.3% as Pansexual 11.2% as Asexual 4.5% as Aromantic

When it comes to umbrella terms, 20.7% use the umbrella term sapphic, 31.9% use WLW, and 27.9% use Queer

(Note that this is a “select all that apply” question, so one may, for example, hit “bisexual, aromantic, and wlw”; percentages do not necessarily take away from each other.)

As of 150 votes, 

74.6% respondents identify simply as a Woman 26.8% identify as Non-binary

When it comes to non-binary identities, 7.2% identify as genderfluid, 7.2% identify as a demigirl, and 3.6% identify as genderqueer.

Out of the people that consider themselves binary women, 

68.5% responded that they are Cisgender 18.9% responded that they are Transgender 12.6% do not wish to disclose whether they are cis or trans

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Characters (Opinions)

So, which characters are popular in the RWBY wlw community? Which characters aren’t? 

(Note: Respondents were allowed to choose up to 5 favorites)

As of 150 votes...

Top 10 most popular female characters

1. Yang Xiao Long (67.5%) 2. Blake Belladonna (62.3%) 3. Weiss Schnee (41.6%) 4. Ruby Rose (27.9%) 5. Pyrrha Nikos (16.9%) 6. & 7. Nora Valkyrie and Ilia Amitola (11.7% each) 8. Penny Polendina (9.7%) 9. Neo (9.1%) 10. Robyn Hill (7.7%)

Top 10 most popular male characters

1. Qrow Branwen (51%) 2. Lie Ren (42.5%) 3. Oscar Pine (28.5%) 4. Jaune Arc (25%) 5. Sun Wukong (24.8%) 6. Ghira Belladonna (18.5%) 7. Roman Torchwick (11.8%) 8. Taiyang Xiao Long (11.1%) 9. James Ironwood (9.8%) 10. Marrow Amin (9.2%)

We also polled which characters wlw hate!

(This is where Google Chrome crashed and we reached 180 responses. Thank you! I’m going to preserve the original numbers I scrawled out, but from here on we’re working with a slightly bigger pool.)

Top 5 6 most hated female characters 1. Cinder Fall (52.8%) 2. Salem (25.8%) 3. Glynda Goodwitch (20.2%) 4-6. Raven Branwen, Neo, and Neon Katt (14.1% each)

Top 5 most hated male characters 1. Adam Taurus (73.8%) 2. Jacques Schnee (62.3%) 3. Tyrian Callows (23.5%) 4. Jaune Arc (15.8%) 5. Arthur Watts (14.1%)

We also asked which characters wlw personally relate to or project onto the most.

Top 10 most relatable female characters to wlw

1. Yang Xiao Long (58.9%) 2. Blake Belladonna (51.7%) 3. Ruby Rose (32.8%) 4. Weiss Schnee (26.1%) 5. Ilia Amitola (15%) 6. Nora Valkyrie (12.%) 7. Pyrrha Nikos (7.2%) 8. & 9. Penny Polendina & Velvet Scarlatina (6.1% each) 10. Coco Adel (3.9%)

Top 5 most relatable male characters to wlw (Note: there was a large vote disparsity between the two!)

1. Jaune Arc (38%) 2. Qrow Branwen (30.1%) 3. Oscar Pine (28.5%) 4. Lie Ren (25.2%) 5. Sun Wukong (17.9%)

Characters (Headcanons)

Next, we asked for peoples’ sexuality headcanons. We asked people to select every character they thought of strictly as X sexuality.

I did include characters whose sexuality has been confirmed, like Ilia, mostly because I copy-pasted the character lists and I made this at midnight. Whoops - but it is fun to see her topping the “most lesbian” list.

These will be phrased as “most [sexuality] character”, because it’s fun.

Top 10 most lesbian characters, as voted by wlw

1. Ilia Amitola (89.7%) 2. Coco Adel (86.9%) 3. Yang Xiao Long (76.6%) 4. Robyn Hill (75.7%) 5. Fiona Thyme (52.8%) 6. Weiss Schnee (46.3%) 7. Winter Schnee (39.7%) 8. Velvet Scarlatina (33.2%) 9. Emerald Sustrai (31.3%) 10. May Marigold (26.2%)

Top 10 most bisexual female characters

1. Blake Belladonna (93.2%) 2. Raven Branwen (53.4%) 3. Summer Rose (48.9%) 4. Pyrrha Nikos (44.7%) 5. Velvet Scarlatina (33.8%) 6. Nora Valkyrie (31.5%) 7. Weiss Schnee (26%) 8. Kali Belladonna (22.4%) 9. Emerald Sustrai (17.4%) 10. Winter Schnee (16.9%)

Top 10 most pansexual female characters

1. Nora Valkyrie (39.1%) 2. Neon Katt (33.8%) 3. Pyrrha Nikos (26.5%) 4. Yang Xiao Long (21.2%) 5. Ruby Rose (17.9%) 6. Penny Polendina (17.2%) 7. Neo (15.9%)  8. Summer Rose (12.6%) 9. May Marigold (10.6%) 10. Elm Ederne (9.3%)

Top 10 most ace and/or aro female characters

1. Ruby Rose (78.9%) 2. Penny Polendina (47.4%) 3. Neo (21.6%) 4. Maria Calavera (8.9%) 5.& 6. Glynda Goodwitch & Cinder Fall (7.4% each)  7. Sienna Khan (5.3%) 8. & 9. Weiss Schnee & Joanna Greenleaf (4.2% each) 10. Winter Schnee & Harriet Bree (3.8% each)

Ships

As of 180 responses:

What is your favorite ship? (You can only pick one!)

Bumbleby (Blake/Yang) - 68.9% Whiterose (Weiss/Ruby) - 13.2% Nuts and Dolts (Ruby/Penny) - 7.4% Renora (Ren/Nora) - 1.1%

Those are all the responses that got 2+ votes (Renora only has 2 so far, they’re the slightly larger turquoise strip!) I don’t have space to write all the ones that got 1 vote individually, so they won’t be in this report.

Top 10 wlw ships, as rated by wlw:

(This is another category where up to 5 answers are permissible!)

1. Bumbleby (93.8%) 2. Whiterose (60.3%) 3. Nuts and Dolts (58.8%) 4. Crosshares [Coco/Velvet] (57.7%) 5. Springthyme [Robyn/Fiona] (30.4%) 6. Schneekos [Weiss/Pyrrha] (27.3%) 7. Freezerburn [Yang/Weiss] (24.7%) 8. Rosebird [Raven/Summer] (24.2%) 9. Schneewood Forest [Robyn/Winter] (19.1%) 10. Monochrome [Blake/Weiss] (18.6%)

Top 5 mlm ships

1. Fair Game [Qrow/Clover] (82.9%) 2. Seamonkeys [Sun/Neptune] (68.4%) 3. Ironqrow [Ironwood/Qrow] (38.9%) 4. Martial Arcs [Jaune/Ren] (17.1%) 5. Rich Farmers [Oscar/Whitley] (14%)

Top 5 m/f ships

1. Renora (88.9%) 2. Arkos (67.7%) 3. Sunflakes [Weiss/Sun] (13.1%) 4. Gelato [Neo/Torchwick] (10.6%) 5. Rosegarden [Ruby/Oscar] (8.6%)

Next, we polled on likelihood vs. personal want. In this next section, up to 5 choices were permissible.

Top 10 “most likely to be canon” ships, as voted by wlw

1. Bumbleby (97.9%) 2. Renora (91%) 3. Fair Game (54.3%) 4. Crosshares (28.5%) 5. Springthyme (28.1%) 6. Rosegarden (22.9%) 7. Whiterose (21.6%) 8. Dreadnought [Salem/Ozpin], reconciled (18.6%) 9. Nuts and Dolts (17.7%) 10. Phoenix [Taiyang/Raven], reconciled (9.7%)

Top 10 “most wanted to be canon” ships

1. Bumbleby (95.4%) 2. Renora (68.6%) 3. Fair Game (54.2%) 4. Crosshares (47.1%) 5. Whiterose (40%) 6. Springthyme (38.8%) 7. Nuts and Dolts (35%) 8. Seamonkeys (13.3%) 9. Dreadnought, reconciled (9.6%) 10. Phoenix, reconciled (7.5%)

And finally, beware of ship hate - the top 5 most hated ships by wlw

1. Taura/donna (84.1%) 2. Black/sun (39.3%) 3. Rosegarden (29.2%) 4. Iceberg [Weiss/Neptune] (28.6%) 5. Qro/win [Qrow/Winter] (27.8%)

Representation

91.2% of wlw polled think RWBY has good wlw representation in general

59.8% would praise RWBY’s lesbian representation

57.3% would praise their bisexual representation

45.6% would praise their trans representation

33.6% would praise their general mlm representation

24.9% would praise their representation of gay men specifically

22.8% would praise their ace/aro representation

Comments on what they could improve on generally include mlm representation, ace/aro rep, and more trans rep

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Thank you so much for partaking in this survey! I’ll post updated results when we hit another milestone, like 500!

[breadthief]

Are you gonna do a survey for mlm, too?

I could! Would there be a lot of interest? This started off as “I’m a wlw (nblw) and I follow a lot of other RWBY fans that are wlw so how much do we have in common” and exploded into something bigger than I thought, haha.

I do kind of have my spoons full with this survey, but I’d happily endorse any mlm that want to make a companion survey or anything like that! Just @ me in it and I’ll reblog

[breadthief]

Hey ladies! If you’re a lesbian, bisexual woman, pansexual woman, or wlw in general and you like RWBY, wanna take a minute to take my survey? I just think statistics are neat and I’ll post my findings after a few weeks I may have already posted this in a few discord servers and spent a good 15 minutes gushing over the statistics we’ve already gotten, but anyways

If youre not wlw feel free to boost this anyways! The more the merrier

[owletarc]

A user called breadthief just put out a google doc survey for wlw about RWBY shipping and I started filling it out but stopped because when it actually got to the shipping opinions part, the ships they provided, the way the ships were sorted, and what ships were put where gave me a big red flag. Not only that, but for Gauntlets and Grieves they put the old, ableist ship name. I get the feeling this survey is not for good intentions.

i was going to send a message but realized it’s a blog of arcotta’s so if they happen to see this, i would just probably say that hey, you should use gauntlet’s and greaves for yang / mercury rather than the old, ableist ship name for them because i personally haven’t seen anyone use disabler in a long time and damn is it a big yikes.

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📅 Monday, October 7th

Apps close - Dream (Barbie movies zine)

Apps open - Unnamed (Fire Emblem three houses zine)

Preorders close - At Any Time, Any Place (Metal Gear Solid Otasune)

📅  Tuesday, October 8th

Preorders open - Fan the Flames (My Hero Academia DabixHawks zine)

📅  Thursday, October 10th

Mod apps close - Unnamed (One Punch Man Batarou zine)

Apps close - Dangerous Ladies (Women of AtLA zine)

Apps close - Rainbow Connection (The Muppets Kermit zine)

Apps open - Unnamed (Magical Girl OC zine)

📅  Friday, October 11th

Interest Survey closes - Timeless (My Hero Academia different eras AU)

Preorders close - Gallifrey Fanzine (Doctor Who Gallifrey audio series)

Preorders close - Ye Saga Continues (Good Omens Earthly delights)

Preorders open - Majesties (Yuri!!! On Ice royalty zine)

📅  Saturday, October 12th

Apps close - Big Three Zine (Shounen Jump big three friendship zine)

Interest Survey closes - Unnamed (RWBY WLW zine)

📅  Sunday, October 13th

Preorders close - The Asura Project (Digital Devil fanzine)

Preorders close - Neopia (Neopets lands of Neopia zine)

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Available for Purchase:

1. (UPDATE) Petal Dance Zine - A Pokemon grass-type zine

⭐ Preorders extended until 11/8/2019

2. (UPDATE) Mystic Cuisine - A Mystic Messenger cookbook zine

⭐ Preorders open until 12/6/2019

Available for Free:

1. (UPDATE) Blaze! - A Pokemon fire-starters zine

2. (UPDATE) TDDK Style - A My Hero Academia Tododeku model AU zine

3. (UPDATE) Mother Sea - A One Piece backstories zine

Looking for Artists:

1. (NEW) Behind the Scenes - A My Hero Academia TV show AU zine

⭐ Apps open until 11/8/2019

2. (UPDATE) Fairytales, Lore, and Legends - A Folktales/Fairytales zine

⭐ Apps open until 11/29/2019

3. (NEW) Bi Pride Anthology - A Bi people loving/being loved zine

⭐ Apps open until 11/30/2019

4. (UPDATE) Unnamed - The Promised Neverland OC zine

⭐ Apps open until 11/30/2019

5. (UPDATE) Moonless Sky - A Diabolik Lovers fanzine

⭐ Apps extended until 11/20/2019

Looking for Mods:

1. (UPDATE) Fairytales, Lore, and Legends - A Folktales/Fairytales zine

⭐ Apps open until 11/29/2019

2. (NEW) Blossoming - A Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood fanzine

⭐ Applications open until 11/20/2019

3. (UPDATE) BNHA Steampunk Zine - A My Hero Academia steampunk zine

⭐ Applications extended until 11/10/2019

Gauging Interest:

1. (NEW) Liberation - A My Hero Academia Paranormal Liberation Front zine

⭐ Survey open until 11/28/2019

Upcoming Zines:

1. (NEW) Love You 3000 - A Marvel Tony Stark Zine

⭐ Preorders open 12/13/2019

2. (UPDATE) The Villain Fashion Book - A Jem and the Holograms fashion zine

⭐ Preorders open 4/1/2020

3. (UPDATE) Changing Seasons - A Persona girls zine

⭐ Preorders open TBD 2020

4. (UPDATE) Gong Yi Fanzine - A Xiaolin Showdown fanzine

⭐ Preorders open 4/24/2020

5. (UPDATE) Like Morning Follows Night - A RWBY BlackSun zine

⭐ Preorders open 11/4/2019

Archived:

1. Allura Lives - A Voltron fix-it fanzine

2. Sapphic Sweets - A WLW cookbook zine

3. Casual Heroes - A Tiger & Bunny heroes zine

4. Stardew Valley Cookbook - A Stardew Valley cookbook zine

5. Toshinko Wedding Zine - A My Hero Academia wedding zine

6. Memento Mori - A Death Parade tarot zine

7. Gracefield’s Birdcage - The Promised Neverland fanzine

8. New Beginning - A Kingdom Hearts 3 fanzine

9. Fantastic Tune - A Kuroko no Basketball idol zine

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Available for Purchase:

1. (NEW) Sapphic Sweets - A WLW Cookbook zine

⭐ Preorders open until 11/1/2019

2. (NEW) Victory - A My Hero Academia future/tabloid zine

⭐ Preorders open until 11/11/2019

3. (UPDATE) At Any Time, Any Place - Metal Gear Solid Otasune zine

⭐ Preorders extended until 10/07/2019

Looking for Mods:

1. (UPDATE) The Promised Neverland OC zine

⭐ Mod apps open until 10/16/2019

Gauging Interest:

1. (NEW) Unnamed RWBY WLW zine

⭐ Interest survey open until 10/12/2019

2. (NEW) KNY Baby Zine - A Kimetsu no Yaiba baby themed zine

⭐ Interest survey open until 10/20/2019